Chocolate Mudcake

Name: Chocolate Mudcake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 250g butter, cubed; 300g dark chocolate, chopped; 2 cups caster sugar; 1 cup hot water; 1 tsp instant coffee; 2 eggs, beaten; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 2 cups self-raising flour; 2 tbsp cocoa powder; ganache or cream to serve

A dense, intensely chocolatey Australian mudcake, better the next day. Wrapping the cooled cake and letting it sit overnight lets the crumb settle into its signature dense, fudgy texture.

Total time

95 min

Prep

20 min

Cook

75 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Australian

vegetarian

Ingredients

250gbutter, cubed

300gdark chocolate, chopped

2 cupscaster sugar

1 cuphot water

1 tspinstant coffee

2eggs, beaten

2 tspvanilla extract

2 cupsself-raising flour

2 tbspcocoa powder

ganache or creamto serve

Instructions

Melt butter, chocolate, sugar, hot water and coffee together. Cool.

Beat in eggs and vanilla.

Fold in flour and cocoa.

Pour into a greased 23cm round tin.

Bake at 160°C for 60-75 minutes until a skewer comes out with moist crumbs.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

1561

Protein

16.2g

Fat

86.2g

Carbs

186.1g

Fiber

11.4g

Sodium

436mg

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